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[wub]

Out of curiosity, how common are SUV's over there?

Pretty common but they are called people carriers over here.

Maggy, Renault 5 You just get better as time goes on dont you?

arent SUVs more like range rovers?

Yeah, people carriers in the US are called minivans.

SUVs in the UK are just called 4x4s

[Forum]

My first car was a stunner, had only done 210k miles



I used to get out accelerated by lorries...

[magma]

I have a focus ST but the guy that always parks next to me at work has an RS and the jealousy is getting stronger every day.

Don't think I could afford the insurance though..

I've got the right horn for hot Fords tbh... I don't care what anyone says about them being common or boring, the Focus has consistently been one of the best cars in the world since it debuted and seeing an RS never fails to make me feel some kind of way.

But then, I got all excited when I saw a mint one of these at the side of the road the other day:



So... yeah, just call me:

[nowaysj]

Where's the '(NSFW)' bit of the SNH forum title gone?

No one's tried to post tits for a couple of days, so the disclaimer was lifted.

[Forum]

Is that an escort cosworth?

They apparently used to be guaranteed police magnets

[magma]

^^ Is that the 1.9GTI model?

Couldn't tell you, I picked this one off google image and it looks the same as mine, that was just to give the idea. The gti models look like the others in the 205 series, except it has 126bhp and disk brakes on all 4 of the wheels.

I meant did you have the GTI model...used to have a 205 as my first car, was like driving a go-kart


Was a 205, then a 106, then a 107 then a 206

You either have phenomenally good luck or never learn your lesson.

205 was a first car and came to me with 76k on the clock, need a new alternator whilst I had but that was about it and it got to ~110k before I got rid of it.

106 I rear ended a Merc E-Class on the M4 and wrote it off. Left a perfect Pug badge imprint on his bumper but otherwise didn't scratch the other car . Insurance valuation was only £100 less than what I'd paid for it 18months previously IIRC.

107 was a lease deal, think I managed to burn the clutch out before I returned it, good going considering it was an automatic.

206 I had from ~25k until ~80k when I moved to Spain, tried to sell it to a dealer for a bit of cash but the repairs it would've needed (new gearbox/clutch etc) were more than the value of the car.

I fucking love Pugs. Even the smaller engine ones shift because there is no weight to them, sure they go wrong all over the place (clutch, gearbox, alternator) but the parts are cheap and plentiful so fuck it, not like they cost a lot to begin with

I've got a bit of an irrational dislike of French cars, to be entirely fair... I love Peugeot styling, but something's gone wrong almost every time I've driven one. When my first car got written off, I had pretty much decided to get a 106 but saw 2 in the same morning and something fell off both of them whilst I was looking around... in the end I bottled it and bought a Fiesta which is to date both the slowest and most comfortable car I've ever owned; my girlfriend was actually pissed off when I said I was getting rid of it for something that could go up hills without changing down to third.

Whilst we're on car histories:

First was a 1991 (H) Rover Metro 1.1S - had it from 70k to about 115k when someone broke into it with a crowbar on NYE writing it off. The most annoying thing was they entirely failed to steal it despite fucking all the electrics trying... and the fucking boot was unlocked so they could've got in for free.



Second was a Blue 1991 (J) Fiesta, 1.1LX



Then I decided new cars were less likely to get broken into, so I committed a man-sin and bought a GOLD 2000 (W) Ford Ka Collection:



Finally, I came to my senses and bought the love of my life, a 1999 (V) Toyota Celica with all the trimmings:



Only I gave it the 2004 Weston-Super-Mare treatment with 19" chrome wheels and a PC in the glovebox.

Because I'm fucking fly like that.

My Mum sold it after I left it in her garage for 4 years after moving to London. Just left me a voicemail saying the money was in my account.

[wub]

My Mum sold it after I left it in her garage for 4 years after moving to London. Just left me a voicemail saying the money was in my account.

I went home to visit once after moving to London and found my parents had sold my bed.

[wolf89]

Hahaha oh dear.

That's at least better than when my gran sold what used to be my dad's 1976 TVR with a (completely illegal) Ford racing engine he put in it for £1500 that was stored at her house after going a bit senile.

[nowaysj]

This looks like it came out of someone's ass.


You say it was called the Ford Ka (Ka?)

[magma]

Hahaha oh dear.

That's at least better than when my gran sold what used to be my dad's 1976 TVR with a (completely illegal) Ford racing engine he put in it for £1500 that was stored at her house after going a bit senile.

When I was looking for what eventually turned out to be the Fiesta above, I turned down buying an original John Cooper Mini for a few hundred quid because the old lady selling it didn't know what it was... it'd been her dead husband's pride and joy, but she thought it was just any old Mini that'd been looked after well. It should've been in a fucking museum.

To this day, I can't really believe I told her, but she lived about 4 streets away and I knew it would've caught up with me eventually.... plus I'm not sure I could've insured it. I hope she sold it to someone that looked after it.

[magma]

This looks like it came out of someone's ass.


You say it was called the Ford Ka (Ka?)

Yep, I think it's scientifically proven to be the worst name for a car ever.

What have you got?

- A Ford Ka.

What type of Ford car?

- No, a Ford Ka. Kay-ay. Ka. You know, the one with the nappy on it.

Fucksake.

All my friends said it wasn't gold, it was ear-wax.

[wub]

Just repeat the Ford Ka owner's mantra - "At least it's not a Micra, at least it's not a Micra, at least it's not a Micra..."

[murky21]

jokes i had a Ka

At least yours was all one colour mate, i had one of the ones with the black bumper section. 'Burnt Orange' upper.

Ended up getting impounded and then (literally( scrapped about 3 months later with only 16000 on the clock so it got what it deserved

[ezza]

i had one of these before it got took off me



had 4 subs in the boot

[magma]

jokes i had a Ka

At least yours was all one colour mate, i had one of the ones with the black bumper section. 'Burnt Orange' upper.

Ended up getting impounded and then (literally( scrapped about 3 months later with only 16000 on the clock so it got what it deserved

My girl at the time wouldn't let me buy one without the body-coloured bumpers - refused to be driven around in anything that looked like it was wearing Pampers.

[Johnlenham]

The details are abit fuzzy as it was a few years ago now but, my gfs aunt used to drive a KA, she drove it into the back of a garbage truck( uk name?) and wrote it off. She had my gfs mum in the passenger seat and as youd expect the air bags went off.
Except according to whoever delt with it all (insurance/garage), Ford Ka's (or atleast her model/year) dont have passenger air bags and had it not been in there gfs mum would have been in hospital in a really bad way. They couldnt explain why it had one in it.

Edit: haha wub, my gf up until June this year drove an 87 micra The red beast was pretty sturdy and lasted 3 years of her crashing into things and getting crashed into.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

big up the 91 camry crew. 300kms going hard.

[wub]

Edit: haha wub, my gf up until June this year drove an 87 micra The red beast was pretty sturdy and lasted 3 years of her crashing into things and getting crashed into.

My housemate final year of Uni had a Kia Pride that was a bodykit ripoff of the earlier Micra models. He put it into a tree reversing out of our drive one time and twisted the chassis somehow, instant Cat B write off

[magma]

The details are abit fuzzy as it was a few years ago now but, my gfs aunt used to drive a KA, she drove it into the back of a garbage truck( uk name?) and wrote it off. She had my gfs mum in the passenger seat and as youd expect the air bags went off.
Except according to whoever delt with it all (insurance/garage), Ford Ka's (or atleast her model/year) dont have passenger air bags and had it not been in there gfs mum would have been in hospital in a really bad way. They couldnt explain why it had one in it.

That's awesome. My one definitely didn't have a passenger airbag... it had the world's smallest cubbyhole where every other car has a proper glovebox.

[murky21]

haha micras were the absolute bottom of the food chain. they made Kas look like fucking bugattis. the Luke Chadwick of cars